A Short History of Drunkenness

Mark Forsyth. 's The Etymologicon. was a Sunday Times. Number One Bestseller and his TED Talk 'What's a snollygoster. ' has had more than half a million views. He has also written a specially commissioned essay 'The Unknown Unknown'. for Independent Booksellers Week and the introduction for the new edition of the Collins English Dictionary. He lives in London with his dictionaries, and blogs at blog. inkyfool. com.